Winston Churchill

There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

He is a modest little man who has a good deal to be modest about.

Don't talk to me about Naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy, and the lash.

Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never - in nothing, great or small, large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. See Shakespear, King Lear, Act V, scene iii. and William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, "Never . . . Lay Down Arms"

Never give in. Never. Never. Never. Never.

There is a good saying to the effect that when a new book appears one should read an old one. As as author I would not recommend too strict an adherence to this saying.

I think "No comment" is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again. I got it from Sumner Welles. To reporters at the Washington airport, after conferring with President Truman at the White House, February 12, 1946

When one is in office one has no idea how damnable things can feel to the ordinary rank and file of the public.

I have not become the King's First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire.

Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.